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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42779, 16 September 1905, Page 3

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Mastebton, This Pay. pi a Wm. Blissett was lit. ed *lO and costs for killing- deer without a license oh a breeding; reserve. He was given time to pay. Blenheim, this day. ‘ occurred at Mullen’s drapery shop. It was suppressed by a chernic ii OQg m after some damage was done 10 goods and fiuilding, The insurance is £9OO. The elder who poisoned him«elf with matches at Picton had a g od income and was not worried financially but suffe ed from despondency, Auckland, this.day. ' A girl named Florence Neal was before the Court for attempting suicide with match-heads in 'consequence of trouble:with her lover. She was ordered to come up for sentence on the unders'anding she would go to Door of Hope for three months. A single woman named Elizabeth Jane Bennet died suddenly. Her . sister four: d a cup c >ntaining phoshorus. Emetics were administered but she died before the doctor arrived. Timaru, This Day. The libel action B dford, H.H.R., v. Toomey, claiming £IOOO for libel alleged in article headed *• Soiled Doves,” which appeared in defendant’s paper has been settled. The defendant apologises and pays costs. Th< terms apply to Taylor’s case but he gees £SO in addition and costs. In Laws ren-on’s case an apology is to be tendered. Dunedin This da}’. Stott and Bromley committed to trial for T ipanui murder of Chinaman. Pa i rick Keogh flvjio was a prominent member of the Native football team of was sentenced to six months for wife beating. ' Christchurch, This Day. Mayor Gray who is a candidate, is an I address declared hims If to be an InI dependent Liberal. Ha did not be l lieve in perpetual lease and supported |4jthe giving of freehold on equitable I conditions. I Wm. Thompson, was charged at the I Court with striking a lunatic whilst I warder at' Sunnyside asylum. r lhe I evidence sh >tv< that the blow left conI siderable marks. Dr. Gow, superin.* I ten dent, said he spoke to Thompson. I When the matter wis reported he I rumbled, and seemed to be under the I influence of drink. Dr. Gow dismissed I him nest day. The magi-t; a‘e refused I to deal with the case and summarily I considered that more than a mere blow I had imeii struck, and committed the I accused, bail £2OO. 1 Westport, this day. I A public meeting io be called to proI test against only ten thousand pounds I appearing on the estimates for railway I toluanguhua. I Dunedin, This Day. ■ The Arbitration o"Urt awarded ■ Dens n £2 11s 9rl per week f >r an eye I lost by a flying nail. In the case of a I lad who claimed for injury he had ■ received in a flaxmill, the Court found I that owing to the lad’s serious and I wilful misconduct in disobeying orders I and as he was now earning more wages I than before injury, give cost £7 7s ■ against his faiher. I Wellington, This Day. ■ At the meeting of the Wellington ■ Woollen Co., the Chairman said, that I business during the year had not I been a 3 satisfactory as he hoped, owI ing to the high price of wool which B the colony as a whole might rejoice I at, and to import low grade articles, I mostly shoddy still. They were able to I pay six per cent dividends. During V the last two years they had spent ■ £32,222 on machinery and plant. ■ Mr Martin Kennedy has received I from the Pope a Knighthood in the ■ order of St Gregory the Grea , in re- ■ cognition of long services to the ■ church. H The Education Conference which I was sitting during the week closed ■ yesterday with a deputation to the I Premier, and on the whole received a H favourable hearing. ■ Whangaeei, Yesterday. ■ At Matapouri yesterday while lowerH ing a toturft pile down a ste ,j p incline on their wire rope, a young man named ■ Charles Fraser Ferguson aged 23, let the rope slip and both legs becoming entangled, were torn ofl. He died in ■ a few hours,